Massage Therapy SE23

Deep tissue massage (DTM) is a technique that focuses on the deeper layers of muscle tissue. It aims to release the chronic patterns of tension in the body using advanced massage techniques, slow strokes and deep finger pressure on the contracted areas. DTM can help to break up and eliminate toxins from muscles it can improve circulation and muscle tone and also promotes a sense of well being.

Why get a DTM?

As well as feeling good, it can be beneficial to your health. When muscles are stressed, they can block oxygen and nutrients. This can lead to inflammation,which in turn builds up toxins in the muscle tissue. DTM can help to loosen muscle tissue, releasing toxins from muscles, ensuring that blood and oxygen circulate efficiently throughout your body. DTM usually focuses on more specific areas and may cause some soreness during or immediately after the massage. However, you should feel better than ever within one or two days. DTM can also help you to sleep better, and is great for pain relief.

Why We’ve Introduced the Vapour Massage

Many people come to us feeling the same things — a tight chest, blocked sinuses, aching muscles, and a body that feels heavy, tense, or run down.

We introduced the Vapour Massage in response to this.

This new signature treatment is designed to help open the airways, ease muscular tension, and restore energetic balance, particularly when the body feels congested, overloaded, or under pressure.

The Vapour Massage includes a 15-minute sauna, usually taken before the massage, to gently warm the body and prepare the muscles for deeper therapeutic work.

The massage itself combines therapeutic bodywork with vapour-active oils to encourage physical release, easier breathing, and deep relaxation.

Clients also receive the remainder of the treatment oil to take home, allowing the benefits to continue beyond the session.

Booking information

The Vapour Massage can be booked online.

Please note: the sauna element must be booked by calling the centre.

Includes a 15 min sauna. Please call to book this.

From time to time, we all carry stress — often without realising the effect it places on our bodies. The build-up of tension can manifest as headaches, shoulder tightness, and nervous energy, leaving us feeling heavy, unsettled, and fatigued.

Our DESTRESS treatment is designed to gently release this tension and restore calm throughout the body. This 90-minute full-body experience includes a soothing head and foot massage encouraging deep relaxation and emotional release.

Head massages can improve circulation and promote the flow of oxygen to the brain. This can help to relieve headaches, reduce mental fatigue, and quiet an overactive mind, encouraging a sense of lightness and clarity.

Foot Massage –Helps to release built-up tension, stimulate energy flow, and soothe the nervous system. Working on reflex points in the feet can also help restore balance throughout the entire body.

A special blend of therapeutic oils featuring lavender and geranium enhances the calming effects of the massage:

Lavender Essential Oil – relaxing, anti-inflammatory, and tension-relieving properties. Helps to ease anxiety, reduce muscle stiffness, and promote restful sleep. Its gentle aroma soothes the mind and creates a sense of deep tranquillity. 

Geranium Essential Oil – balancing and uplifting; geranium supports emotional stability, relieves nervous tension, and helps restore inner harmony. It also assists in improving circulation and easing fatigue, leaving you feeling centred and renewed.

At the end of your treatment, you’ll receive the remainder of the oil to use at home - a sensory reminder of your session

Includes a 15 min sauna. Please call to book this.

When life feels out of balance and your energy feels scattered, our CALM Massage offers the perfect reset. This 90-minute treatment combines the healing touch of massage with the gentle energy healing, helping to restore harmony between body, mind, and spirit.

Energy healing could involve the gentle laying of hands to rebalance the body’s natural energy flow. It promotes deep relaxation, reduces stress, and encourages emotional clarity, enhancing your overall sense of wellbeing.

A special aromatherapy blend of bergamot, bay, and lavender deepens the therapeutic benefits of the session:

Bergamot is known for its uplifting yet calming properties, bergamot helps to ease anxiety, balance mood, and promote a sense of optimism and lightness.

Bay – a warming, grounding oil that supports mental clarity and confidence, bay helps to release nervous tension and restore a sense of inner strength and stability.

Lavender – deeply soothing and restorative, lavender encourages emotional calm, muscle relaxation, and a peaceful mind.

At the end of your treatment, you’ll receive the remainder of the oil to use at home - a sensory reminder of your session. Use it anytime you need to return to stillness and reconnect with the peaceful energy you experienced during your massage  journey.

It is only natural to get up in the morning and yawn and stretch, stretching is also a great antidote to sedentary jobs as well as the obvious pre and post training/work out session. A good stretch session can work out kinks and restore range of motion and can be especially helpful for those who are involved in regular vigorous exercise, such as sports, dance and gym goers.

It is the process of gradually applying gentle force to lengthen and lubricate muscles and joints. It is a way to show you love your body because it requires complete focus on yourself. Stretching has both neurological and mechanical effects on muscles and connective tissue. A stretch needs to be held long enough for muscles to relax so that they can be passively lengthened. As you hold a stretch, consciously relax the tight muscle and feel the myofascial tissues around it elongate. Once the muscle fully relaxes, the connective tissues can begin to stretch.

This treatment involves passive stretching. Passive is when someone else moves your muscle and when matched with massage can improve the benefits of stretching threefold:

• Can achieve agreater muscle stretch
• Control of stretch intensity
• Can increase relaxation during stretch by reducing muscle and joint tension thus helping you achieve a better range of movement
• Stretch,strengthen and stabilise muscles and joints; helping you to feel better thus aid natural recovery
• Can improve your technique and reduce the risk of injury during activity (e.g.muscle pulls, sprains, aching joints etc)

A massage therapist is able to focus on isolated muscles or the whole body. A massage brings the body back into balance so that muscles are properly aligned. A massage can realign scar tissue with gentle force over a period of time as suppleness is restored to the skin. A massage therapist will make sure you don’t overdo muscle stretching if you are recovering from an illness, an athlete between workouts or not in good condition.

The benefits of combining stretching and massage include improving blood pressure and heart rate. You may believe that only people who excessively exercise have good body tone, but that is not true. Stretching can slowly lead to aerobic exercise but along the way your body will experience greater muscle tone. A massage may be passive stretching but it can offer active vitality in your life.

I (Devon) was unwittingly taught Caribbean Heat Massage back in the 60’s in a little farming parish in Jamaica called St.Thomas. My Grandfather, a small holding farmer used to get me to heat up camphorated oil (Camphor oil), mixed with coconut oil to rub into his aching back and shoulder after a hard days work in the fields. The main factor of that was the heating of the oil over kerosene lamps and I didn’t realise how much I was being taught at the time.

Came to England as a young boy and after many years became a therapist and on my visit back to St.Thomas I visited Bath Fountain,which are naturally heated springs. I was persuaded to have a massage from a local therapist who dipped my towel in the water then placed it on my back and proceeded to massage my back using the heat. This reminded me of my grandfather and his heated oils.

On my return back to England I tried and failed in many attempts to reconstruct those techniques. After years of practising heat massage, I feel I have now perfected the capturing of these feelings by my new treatment called ‘Caribbean Heat Massage’ This treatment is for pampering,relaxation or it can be combined with deep tissue to soothe aches and pains,relaxing muscles but rejuvenating you at the same time.

Massage with heat to relax the muscles using a combination of massage techniques honed from Devon’s years of experience. Can help to alleviate aches and pains. Can be soothing or deep tissue or strong but soothing, you decide.

This could include Myofascial release techniques; Massage manipulation; Stretch; Hip alignment

Do you hold a lot of tension or pain? Due to various factors such as… bad posture, work injuries and so forth…

If the answer is yes, then this treatment is designed perfectly for you! Myofascial release is a safe and very effective hand’s on technique – a gentle pressure is applied on your connective tissues to release tension (Fascia, the connective tissue covers the entire body from head to toe). Thereafter a variety of massage techniques are used, these will vary depending on the client’s specific needs, resulting in a decrease of tightness in the fascia & muscles – helping to alleviate tension.

This technique is very subtle and is very relaxing; often the client will automatically feel the release in their body.

PS. This is not necessarily a deep tissue massage as there may be gentle techniques used

Indian head massage uses and adapts classic Swedish massage techniques, for treating the scalp, face, neck, shoulders and upper arms. It is extremely effective for treating stress because it works on the areas of the body most affected i.e.the shoulders, upper back, neck and head. Reducing stress, helps to prevent stress-induced muscle spasm in the back as well as shoulders and arms and also reduces inflammation or subsequent pain.

However, although the treatment focuses on the upper torso and head, the effects are felt throughout the entire body. It is performed whilst the client is clothed,which makes it effective for short treatments (and for treating clients who are uncomfortable about undressing).

This massage improves circulation and helps to remove waste, particularly lactic acid, from muscles thus reducing aches and pain. Working on the neck and shoulders will help to reduce tension, stretch the tissues, increase flexibility and release tightness in overworked muscles.

Holistic comes from the Greek word “holos” meaning whole. The holistic approach to treatments takes into account a person’s whole being – mind body and spirit and not just the symptom or ailment. So then aftercare advice can be given with regards to your environment, nutrition and your health as a whole,both physically and psychologically.

Everything we do in our daily lives affects our body. We can suffer symptoms of stress from working in an uncomfortable environment or feelings of being under pressure because of deadlines needing to be met, or just leading a very busy life which in the end leads to us feeling tired, exhausted, stressed and anxious.

That’s why massage is so good as it just helps us to take that crucial time out to pamper, to heal, to relax, to alleviate stress, aches and pains and leave us feeling grounded, balanced and recharged.

All pregnant women can expect to experience at least a little stiffness and muscular tension during their pregnancy as their uterus expands to accommodate their growing baby. Fortunately there is a simple and effective way to not only treat some of the side effects of pregnancy but also leave you feeling great.

Massage therapy during pregnancy can often relieve many of the common side effects of pregnancy, whether you suffer from backaches, headaches, swelling or other pregnancy related problems. Your doctor may suggest that you don’t have treatments or join some exercise classes until you’re at least 12 weeks pregnant and also after more than 32 weeks pregnant. Do check with your doctor first.

Back pain is one of the more common side effects of pregnancy. Back pain can continue throughout pregnancy and even after. If you have to carry around other small children you may find your symptoms exacerbated during pregnancy. Fortunately massage can help relieve back pain associated with muscular tension.

Here are just a few of the other benefits prenatal massage has to offer:

• Prenatal massage helps relieve swelling by stimulating circulation throughout the body.
• Leg massage can help reduce leg cramps and swelling in the legs.
• Massage is very beneficial for relaxing anxiety during pregnancy.
• Massage can help promote more restful sleep

When you go for your massage, let the therapist know if you have any particularly sensitive areas or if you are uncomfortable. There will be extra pillows, wedges and extra padding to help you get comfortable. Your therapist can help you move into different positions, sitting, lying on your side or semi reclining depending on what is comfortable for you so you can relax and enjoy the benefits of a massage.

A variety of massage techniques can be used, including deep tissue, muscle energy work and stretching to release muscle tension thus restoring a healthy balance to the musculo-skeletal system.

Reflexology is a pressure therapy given on the feet(or hands), where all the structures and organs of the body are reflected in miniature. For example touching one part of the foot or toe corresponds to different parts of your body’s organs, systems & structures.  In a one hour treatment all these points are pressed for a full routine on each foot.

Having the combination treatment can enhance the work done on the body both internally and externally.

Remedial Massage is deep tissue massage that efficiently treats injuries. It removes blockages and damaged cells, speedingup recovery and encouraging complete healing. Regular massage ensures that unnoticeably small injuries are treated before they reduce performance. It effectively removes scar tissue remaining after old injuries, reducing repeat injuries.

Lack of blood supply to the spine is a significant cause of long-term back pain. Lack of movement and incorrect use of muscles reduces oxygen supply,resulting in pain. Remedial Massage increases blood supply to soft tissue. Following a recent injury, improvement or complete recovery is seen after 1-3 sessions. It is especially effective for reducing pain within the body.

A variety of techniques can be used, including deeptissue, muscle energy work and stretching to release muscle tension thus restoring a healthy balance to the musculo-skeletal system.

This is a treatment which massages the reflex points in the feet, similar to reflexology in that it refers to the foot map but using soothing massage strokes over the toes, soles of the feet, the heals, the ankles, calves, all the way up to the knees. This helps the circulation and also the lymphatic system which helps to relax the leg and rejuvenate heavy, tired legs. Can also help to tone muscles and detoxify the calves.

Massage is an important part of the schedule of sports professionals worldwide, from runners; cyclists; boxers; dancers;swimmers to tennis players. So, if it’s good enough for them, surely it can help you too? More and more people are realising that exercising also involves the care for the wear and tear and minor injuries that naturally occur. Looking after yourself with regular massage can improve performance and help to:

• Reduce chance of injury
• Improve range of motion and muscle flexibility
• Shorten recovery time between workouts
• Maximise the suppy of nutrients and oxygen through increased blood flow
• Help eliminate the toxin by-products of exercise

So, whether you’re preparing for the marathon,playing football on Sundays or doing regular workouts, regular masasge can benefit your lifestyle. See our special offer page for our clients who book regular sessions.

Top and Toe massage, can be done while the client is fully clothed and concentrates on the head, neck, feet and calves. Using soothing strokes and finger pressure, it helps to unblock the meridian lines and clear toxins. A gentle massage on the scalp helps to drain lymph from the head, which improves circulation to the area.

Also when massaging the reflex points on the soles of the feet, this also treats the whole body, draining lymph from the calves into the back of the knee which eases aches and pains.

This massage is also a quick way to relax and soothe the mind and body and can easily be fitted into your day’s routine anytime you feel the need to have that ‘coffee or chocolate break’.